Chapter 8A WEEK of normality. No surprise phone calls from the president. No complaints from the principal's office. Only his students' continued concentration and completed homework kept Fritz wondering. Ashley reported the same liveliness, as did other teachers. Senior Eric Silver told him the American history students had almost completed the outline for a year-long project they were working on. The ninth graders had produced a competent, polished plan for a schoolwide history baseball tournament. They envisioned sixteen-player teams of four students from each grade, with teachers as coaches. “Mr. R,” they had decided, would be the commissioner. Fritz told them on Friday afternoon what a great job they had done, but suggested that Mr. McAllister should be the commissioner. He could be a
